DELKOR India has secured an EPC contract from Arab Potash Company to supply a 50 m diameter DELKOR Thickener for the Hot Leach Potash (HLP) circuit in the firm’s latest capacity expansion project. The large-diameter unit is designed for high-throughput liquid/solid separation in hot brine conditions, a critical bottleneck in potash crystallisation and recovery. For process and tailings engineers, the installation signals further scaling of HLP operations at Arab Potash’s Jordan facilities, with implications for water balance, underflow rheology and downstream evaporation capacity.

Weir has secured a contract to supply ENDURON® high pressure grinding rolls (HPGR) for the tertiary crushing circuit in Ivanhoe Mines’ Platreef Phase 2 concentrator expansion in South Africa. The HPGR circuit will be integrated as part of the Phase 2 flowsheet rather than relying solely on conventional cone crushing, targeting improved energy efficiency and finer product for downstream milling. For process engineers, the move signals continued adoption of HPGR technology on large-scale PGM–nickel concentrators to cut specific energy and potentially reduce overall comminution footprint.

Cohda Wireless and Spectrum FiftyNine are deploying compact V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) modules at Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi underground mine in Mongolia to deliver real-time proximity awareness between heavy vehicles and personnel. The system integrates Cohda’s V2X software stack with Spectrum FiftyNine’s low-profile hardware, Roobuck cap lamps and Maptek’s mine planning and visualisation tools to create a unified situational awareness layer. For geotechnical and operations teams, this enables tighter traffic management in constrained headings and declines without relying solely on line-of-sight or radio voice calls.